Just a slight nitpick: what you're ranting about has more to do with regional lines than those of political parties. There's a reason why the Southern Strategy is called the Southern Strategy and not the Dixicrat/Democratic Strategy. If you want to bitch about revisionsim, at least approach it with a nuanced view instead of parroting right-wing memes.Necessity is a bitch, isn't it? Because clearly African Americans needed to be taxed extra to vote and taxed extra on guns, that's why there were laws written by Democrats in favor of that. Because they didn't need their rights defined under the Bill of Rights. Bunch of revisionist hypocrites arguing necessity, this is the path you walk down and it is one paved with racism, inequality and elitism.
The reason why the Democrats labelled that the Southern Strategy is because they abandoned that core group of their voters that caused the Battle of Athens among other things. The Republican Party has had on average 50 years to reform 170 years of Democratic hate. Again, you don't grasp that easily, not my problem. Since the Democrats abandoned their White Hate groups the power of those groups has dwindled into what we now experience today, instead of rising to the point of corrupting the government, fixing ballot boxes and writing Jim Crow laws.Just a slight nitpick: what you're ranting about has more to do with regional lines than those of political parties. There's a reason why the Southern Strategy is called the Southern Strategy and not the Dixicrat/Democratic Strategy. If you want to bitch about revisionsim, at least approach it with a nuanced view instead of parroting right-wing memes.
The Republicans don't have a monopoly on racists, but if you're a racist, you'd more likely be a Republican than a Democrat today.
Ummm...the Southern Strategy was coined by a Republican in the 60's.The reason why the Democrats labelled that the Southern Strategy is because they abandoned that core group of their voters that caused the Battle of Athens among other things.
Again, the Democratic Party didn't "abandon white hate groups;" the Democrats that were white supremacists abandoned the Democratic Party to become Republicans and therefore, the Republican party became the party of white supremacists starting in the 1960's.The Republican Party has had on average 50 years to reform 170 years of Democratic hate. Again, you don't grasp that easily, not my problem. Since the Democrats abandoned their White Hate groups the power of those groups has dwindled into what we now experience today, instead of rising to the point of corrupting the government, fixing ballot boxes and writing Jim Crow laws.
Woosh! That's the sound of it going over your head. The entire first paragraph was dripping in sarcasm.What I'd really like to know is how black people experienced, as you say, "wrongly perceived persecution."
Lovely deflection, I almost fell for it. I had to actually look at what I wrote because quite clearly the words say...Ummm...the Southern Strategy was coined by a Republican in the 60's.
Not sure what the Battle of Athens has to do with anything unless there were time-traveling Democrats from the 60's that told Democrats in the 1940's to abandon their racist southern base.
Because corrupt Democrats caused the event to happen, when a white Deputy shot a black voter named Tom Gillespie.they abandoned that core group of their voters that caused the Battle of Athens among other things.
The Democratic party signed away the core of their hate groups by signing into law the Voters Rights Act in 1965. This is the definition, the very heart at how they abandoned their hate groups. Lyndon B Johnson acknowledged by doing so he caused the Democrats to "lose the South" for generations. They did not become Republicans because Republicans were racists and appealed to ALL of their views, they became Republicans because their party no longer supported their hate and the Republicans supported the rest of their Southern culture, of Christianity and Conservative views. There is racism in the party but if it were allowed to grow at the same rates as the Democrats who fed it like a mushroom, keeping them in the dark and shoveling all their nasty shit at it, it would be overflowing like it was back then.Those elected Democratic representatives didn't abandon their constituents; they became Republicans.
Again, the Democratic Party didn't "abandon white hate groups;" the Democrats that were white supremacists abandoned the Democratic Party to become Republicans and therefore, the Republican party became the party of white supremacists starting in the 1960's.
If the Democratic Party abandoned the Southern Strategy as a way to gain more power as a party, aren't the things you listed, like corrupting government with racist legislation, a good thing? And since the Democratic Party has stopped doing it, is it then fair to characterize the modern Democratic Party and it's members, which tends to be the political party to fight that stuff, as the some ones that did it 50 years ago?
I normally wouldn't reply to something obviously rhetorical but that may just be the icing on your ignorant cake, may the Public School system bless you.I'm as against racism as anyone, but if the Republican Party started trying to get reparations and wore dashiki's in solidarity in 2030 with the Democratic Party becoming racist Randian theocrats, I'd have a hard time hammering Republicans for being racists in 2030, you dig?
So all Democrats, past and present, are responsible for this because a town run by Democrats did a bad thing. Gotcha.Lovely deflection, I almost fell for it. I had to actually look at what I wrote because quite clearly the words say... Because corrupt Democrats caused the event to happen, when a white Deputy shot a black voter named Tom Gillespie.
It's almost as if you're applying the same mentality of the 1960's to today. Lee Atwater would be so disappointed in you. HUGE hint there, holmes.The Democratic party signed away the core of their hate groups by signing into law the Voters Rights Act in 1965. This is the definition, the very heart at how they abandoned their hate groups. Lyndon B Johnson acknowledged by doing so he caused the Democrats to "lose the South" for generations. They did not become Republicans because Republicans were racists and appealed to ALL of their views, they became Republicans because their party no longer supported their hate and the Republicans supported the rest of their Southern culture, of Christianity and Conservative views. There is racism in the party but if it were allowed to grow at the same rates as the Democrats who fed it like a mushroom, keeping them in the dark and shoveling all their nasty shit at it, it would be overflowing like it was back then.
What you have is a history of support for Democratic hate applied up until that point in time, there is cause and there is effect. With that however you have a lot of voters, voters who did make their decisions in elections. You would fault the Republicans for picking up those voters because the Democrats don't want them any more? But the Republicans haven't catered to the hate, there has been no re-emergence of old guard hate groups with the same goals of restricting civil liberties of minorities. When the Democrats stopped supporting the restrictions on civil rights, everybody was a lot happier. Now we're restricting civil rights again and again and again.
It's isn't rhetorical, but hypothetical, which is the word I think you're looking for. I guess my public schooling was good enough to know what the Bill of Rights is and the difference between rhetorical and hypothetical. But I guess I'm the ignorant one.I normally wouldn't reply to something obviously rhetorical but that may just be the icing on your ignorant cake, may the Public School system bless you.
Actually if your ADD didn't direct your conversation elsewhere, you'd realize that I was staying on topic with what I posted while you deflected towards your happy zone of blissful ignorance.So all Democrats, past and present, are responsible for this because a town run by Democrats did a bad thing. Gotcha.
So what would it mean if a Republican run town did the same thing
LOL. Somehow you think you're making a point but all you're doing is saying water is wet. Racism exists, for 170 years the Democratic party enabled it to reach the highest of heights of it in the South and promptly, with the passing of one set of laws in 1965 suddenly decided they were going to be on the winning side. If the racist Republicans were or are as bad as you're making them out to be, there would be more hate. There isn't. What there is however is celebrities screaming racism all the time, liberals screaming racism all the time, you have black liberals denouncing conservative blacks because they're not toe-ing the "black" party line. You have Russel Simmons attacking the new NRA spokesman for promoting violence when Russel Simmons Rush Card fleeces the poor people his prepaid card is targeted and marketed towards helping.It's almost as if you're applying the same mentality of the 1960's to today. Lee Atwater would be so disappointed in you. HUGE hint there, holmes.
Here's another hint: There were Republicans in the south that supported the same thing as those Democrats and still do. ohshitmindblown
I'm sorry that I did not take you seriously and start laughing harder. I'll correct that now, lol.It's isn't rhetorical, but hypothetical, which is the word I think you're looking for. I guess my public schooling was good enough to know what the Bill of Rights is and the difference between rhetorical and hypothetical. But I guess I'm the ignorant one.
The only topic you're interested in is pointing out how Democrats, the Democratic Party, and liberals are the REAL racists. Now if you led with that and called it a day, you would've saved us both some effort.Actually if your ADD didn't direct your conversation elsewhere, you'd realize that I was staying on topic with what I posted while you deflected towards your happy zone of blissful ignorance.
The modern Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln and the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the KKK. This is NOT a complicated concept and neither is looking at voting trends to notice that they're split more on regional than party lines.LOL. Somehow you think you're making a point but all you're doing is saying water is wet. Racism exists, for 170 years the Democratic party enabled it to reach the highest of heights of it in the South and promptly, with the passing of one set of laws in 1965 suddenly decided they were going to be on the winning side. If the racist Republicans were or are as bad as you're making them out to be, there would be more hate. There isn't. What there is however is celebrities screaming racism all the time, liberals screaming racism all the time, you have black liberals denouncing conservative blacks because they're not toe-ing the "black" party line. You have Russel Simmons attacking the new NRA spokesman for promoting violence when Russel Simmons Rush Card fleeces the poor people his prepaid card is targeted and marketed towards helping.
Yeah, white flight, red-lining, job discrimination, loan discrimination, wage discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement have absolutely nothing to do with anything...especially since they didn't stop in 1964.The racist culture right now is the creation of the Liberals focused on nurturing the specific conditions in which it has become acceptable culturally for people of color not to move up in status, to worship villians as heroes, to drop the n-bomb and every profanity in every piece of popular urban music as much as possible. Liberals have lowered the standards on acceptable speech and defended it by citing Freedom of Speech, stunting the growth of a whole culture of urban youths into gangster worship and violence. The real racism is that this culture is now accepted and promoted where the status quo is the height of success and anybody who improves themselves beyond that is treated to their xenophobic zeal.
WTF does this even mean? Like, I get your point, but is it really THAT hard to come up with a coherent and biting insult? I don't even care if you do as long as you come up with something that isn't lame. That attempt you just made? It's one step above the mimicry game and hackish...it's almost as if you don't understand how sarcasm works. It's like someone handing you a twinkie, you saying in a sarcastic tone "I really hate twinkies," and then you tossing it on the ground to stomp the hell out of it. Sarcasm doesn't work that way.I'm sorry that I did not take you seriously and start laughing harder. I'll correct that now, lol.
a bill to stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons
No, I stated quite clearly that the road to gun control is paved in Democratic hate backed by years of it. You gave the age old "Democrats switched sides" and they haven't. They support ghettos, inner city violence and controlling the actions of those who cherish their rights.The only topic you're interested in is pointing out how Democrats, the Democratic Party, and liberals are the REAL racists. Now if you led with that and called it a day, you would've saved us both some effort.
That's half accurate, the Dems graduated well beyond the openly atrocious KKK. From ACORN rebranding it's self to OFA soliciting "donations" at the $500k mark to have quarterly meetings with the President, they're still trying to pursue gun control at every cost, including drudging up false racism in a class war that pits the black urban liberals versus the black conservatives. It's straight out black on black racism which makes no sense at all.The modern Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln and the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the KKK. This is NOT a complicated concept and neither is looking at voting trends to notice that they're split more on regional than party lines.
Your revision of history is simply amazing, the Democrats were facing increasing armed resistance and black voters started voting Republicans, they had to do something. The easiest and quickest thing was to abandon their hate groups, which they magically did once they started losing black voters. They took a hit in voters that they would recover in generations by revising history that removed political parties and affiliation from the history books taught in Public Schools.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is more complicated than Democrats wanting to "be on the winning side." They could've just as easily told black people to geted and no one would've really given a damn. In matter of fact, that's what everyone was doing and Kennedy deemed it too much of a political risk. It wasn't until a couple of assassinations and Johnson twisting the arm of everyone in Congress to get that bill passed. I'm not the one ignoring the differences between northern Democrats and Republicans with southern Democrats and Republicans. But please go on about how ignorant I am with these issues.
Absolutely, however they're not picking on other black conservatives. On the flipside of that coin you also have intelligent black rappers, some convicted criminals, that acknowledge that gun control is not the answer. They don't get interviewed and when they do they get railroaded into an argument filled with gun control misinformation. T.I. got interviewed on Hot 97, it absolutely highlights the way this class war is being waged because they thought because he has money, because he was one of them, he'd fall in line.You want to talk about black celebrities that prey on the poor? Go right ahead! You forgot Sean Combs, Master P, and Jay Z. In matter of fact, I welcome it because they need to be called out on it. You know why? Because I'm not an ideologue.
Except they have everything to do with the racist class war that's being waged by the Democrats on their own constituents. The fact that any conservative points this out and they get attacked in such a way that demonizes their support of the victims.Yeah, white flight, red-lining, job discrimination, loan discrimination, wage discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement have absolutely nothing to do with anything...especially since they didn't stop in 1964.
I don't need to make a biting insult, I'm laughing at your bait/humor/flailings. I'm satisfied that I don't need to lower myself to fit your stipulations of how somebody should interact with you.WTF does this even mean? Like, I get your point, but is it really THAT hard to come up with a coherent and biting insult? I don't even care if you do as long as you come up with something that isn't lame. That attempt you just made? It's one step above the mimicry game and hackish...it's almost as if you don't understand how sarcasm works. It's like someone handing you a twinkie, you saying in a sarcastic tone "I really hate twinkies," and then you tossing it on the ground to stomp the hell out of it. Sarcasm doesn't work that way.it. I'm playing FF13-2
During the period when the AWB was in effect, it was illegal to manufacture any firearm that met the law's flowchart of an assault weapon or large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for export or for sale to a government or law enforcement agency. The law also banned possession of illegally imported or manufactured firearms, but did not ban possession or sale of pre-existing 'assault weapons' or previously factory standard magazines that were legally redefined as large capacity ammunition feeding devices. This provision for pre-ban firearms created higher prices in the market for such items, which still exist due to several states adopting their own assault weapons bans.
The law would require therapists, doctors, nurses and social workers to tell government authorities if they believe a patient is likely to harm himself or others. That could lead to revoking the patient’s gun permit and seizing any guns.
In interviews Tuesday, one expert called the new law meaningless and said he expects mental health providers to ignore it, while others said they worry about its impact on patients.
Dr. Paul Appelbaum at Columbia University said the prospect of being reported to local mental health authorities and maybe the police might discourage people from revealing thoughts of harm to a therapist, or even from seeking treatment at all.
“The people who arguably most need to be in treatment and most need to feel free to talk about these disturbing impulses, may be the ones we make least likely to do so,” said the director of law, ethics and psychiatry at Columbia. “They will either simply not come, or not report the thoughts that they have.”
“If people with suicidal or homicidal impulses avoid treatment for fear of being reported in this way, they may be more likely to act on those impulses,” he said.